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oTA? Z HISTORICAL JOCIETY 1012 LOIRY USC
A S J COLUMBIA. MO. & 52H
76th Year No. 16 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, October 2. 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
Donovan indicted; leaves Cabinet post
NEW YORK ( UPI) - Labor Secretary
Raymond Donovan was indicted Monday on
criminal fraud and larceny charges and im-mediately
took a leae of absence from his
Cabinet post He called the indictment a
" mindless inquisition" that is politically mo-tivated.
" To assure that this matter does not be-come
a part of the current election cam-paign.
I have asked the president today to
accept my request for a leave of absence
without pay, effective immediately, and he
has granted my request," Donovan said at a
hastily called news conference in Washing-ton.
" I am outraged and disgusted by the ac-tions
and the obviously partisan timing ,"
Donovan said " My concerns are that my
family has to endure this mindless inquisi-tion
and that this not reflect negatively on
the president"
At a campaign stop in Biloxi, Miss , White
House spokesman Larry Speakes said Presi-dent
Reagan had ' no specific reaction" to
the indictment " because the matter is in the
courts." When asked if Reagan retained full
confidence in his labor secretary. Speakes
replied " On the baas of what he knows,
yes"
Management of the department will now
be in the hands of I. abor Undersecretary
FordB Ford
Last week, Donovan waived immunity and
testified for nearly five hours before a Broax
grand jurv, calling its investigation a " witch
hunt"
Donovan, apparently the onlv active Cab- m- et
member ever to be indicted on criminal
charges, also said that he expects to resume
his duties when " this injustice" has been set-tled.
A Bronx grand jury returned the criminal
indictments against Donovan, the Schiavone
Construction Co in Secaucus. N J , and sev-en
current or former executives of the com-pany
Sources were unable to furnish details on
the indictment but said they stemmed from
Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola's in-vestigation
into Schiav one's relationship
with JoPel, a Broax- base- d excavation com-pany
owned by state Sen Joseph Gahber, D- Bro- ax.
and reputed mobster William Massel-- h
Merola could not be reached for comment
on the indictments.
Theodore Geiser. a lawy er for Schiavone
said he had not seen the indictment but that
he had been been informed the company and
its executives were charged with one count
of grand larceny . 125 counts of maintaining
false business records and 11 counts of filing
false business records
Geiser said Donovan and the seven other
people would be arraigned this morning in
the Bronx
JoPel was a minority business enterprise
that did work for Schiavone on the Transit
Authontv " s 63rd Street subwav extension
Merola's investigators and the grand jurv
were probing charges that S8 million alleged-ly
paid to JoPel by Schiavone in 1979 and
1980 was based on false statements and bo-gus
billings aimed at inflating the value of
the work performed by JoPel
At the time, Donovan was a Schiavone e- ecu- tive
Donovan was executive vice president of
the Schiav one Construction Co before being
chosen bv Reagan as labor secretary Ques-tions
about his dealings with that firm has
plagued him throughout his tenure, especial-ly
allegations of close business and social
connections with underworld figures
The controversy over Donovan began
when allegations surfaced of a possible link
to a kickback scheme involving Schiavone
and Newark. N J . businessman Irvirg Kan- to- r,
who had told a court that he dealt in
laundering pavoffs from contractors to poli-ticians
A second allegation mvolv ed a ghost em-ploy
ee" named Joseph Murray a dnvtr for
a Teamsters official, who was on the Sthia- von- e
payroll from November l'' 7T to June
1978, although he never reporh d to , ork
A Jan 10. 1981. Justice Department memo
said the firm relented to the demand for the
pavment " to retain labor peace "
On Jan 27. 1981. the FBI told Donovan's
Senate confirmation hearing that an exhaus-tive
investigation had failed to corroborate
any of the allegations against Donovan
Donovan was confirmed bv the Senate
Feb 3.1981 bv an 80- 1- 7 v ote
y- lirrS- c rfc-- f & 4Vatfls Cattle at the University's research farm south of Co- -
-- OlIUS Ul O. lCtfllCfi lumbia paid no heed to a flock of starlings that set- -
Alan Moyer
tied on a nearby fence The birds and cattle were
seemingly enjoying the area's warmer temperatures
Supreme Court opens term; accepts gay- righ- ts case
WASHINGTON fUPI) The Su-preme
Court opened its new term
Monday by accepting a homosexual- ngbt- s
case, denying an administra-tion
plea to block a school busing
plan and rejecting Rhode Island's
appeal of a court ruling that over-turned
the attempted murder con-viction
of Dutch financier Claus von
Bulow.
On the first day of its 1384- 8- 5 term,
the justices took acbon in about 1,000
cases, but agreed to add only 30 of
them to their docket
The justices for the first tune
took up an issue involving homosex-uals,
agreeing to review a ruling
that bars Oklahoma schools from fir-ing
teachers for advocating or en-couraging
homosexual conduct A
Missouri decisions Page 8A
lower court ruled Oklahoma's law
allowing such dismissals was an un-constitutional
denial of First Amend-ment
free- speec- h rights.
In the von Bulow case, the court
had no comment as it turned down
Rhode Island's appeal from a state
supreme court ruling overturning
the Danish- bor- n financier's convic-tions
for twice trying to murder his
socialite wife. Sunny, who has been
in a coma since January 1981.
Von Bulow was sentenced to 30
years in state prison but remains
free on bail and now may be tried a
second time bythe state.
The court also handed the Reagan
administration a defeat by refusing.
without explanation, to rev lew a rul-ing
that could require up to $ 500 mil-lion
a decade to be spent for volun-tary
busing to desegregate St I. oui. s
schools.
Administration officials urged the
justices to take up the appeals of St
Ixniis and the state of Missouri that
they should not be saddled with such
heavy costs to implement the pro-gram,
which involves busing of sig-nificant
numbers of black and white
students across district lines.
The challenge to Oklahoma's law- wa- s
brought by the National Gay
Task Force, which says its mem-bership
includes teachers in the Ok-lahoma
public school system
The group lost the first round in
federal district court, but the 10th
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck
down the section of the law punish-ing
teachers for " advocating en-couraging
or promoting public or
private homosexual acuv ity "
In other action Monday, the court
--- Agreed to decide whether a
state may require that a photograph
appear on a driver's license without
infringing on a person's religious be-liefs
Nebraska officials are appealing a
federal court ruling allowing a wom-an
to avoid being photographed for a
driving license because it interferes
with her religious beliefs
js. stand a key state court rul-ing
that allows victims of the drug
DES, which can lead to cancer in
children of women who take it dur-ing
pregnancy, to recover damages
from more than one drug manufac-turer
Agreed to review a ruling that
overturned Washington state's
obscenity law on grounds it did not
specify which books, magazines and
other matenals are obscene
Refused to review a ruling
upholding extensive, new govern-ment
rules that give consumers
more protecbon for alleged abuses
in the funeral industry
Said it will decide in an Illinois
case whether a union can prevent its
members from quitting during a
strike or when a strike is about to be
called
v Rebuffed a plea from 32 states
to restrict the power of federal
courts to review state court rulings
in capital punishment cases
Project asks NRC to suspend
initial reaction at Callaway
By Carolyn McMaster
Missourtan staff writer
Despite allegations of shoddy
workmanship, Union Electric Co.
plans to start nuclear operations
on schedule at its Callaway Nu-clear
Power Plant
" The plant is very much on
schedule," said RA. McAleenan,
nuclear information officer for
Union Electric in SL Louis. The
sustained nuclear reaction at the
plant will probably begin today.
The Government Accountabili-ty
Project, however, has filed a
petition with the Nuclear Regula-tory
Commission requesting sus-pension
of Callaway's license for
low- pow- er operation una! the
commission investigates the
group's allegations about the
plant The Washington Deb-ased
organization contends it
has sworn affidavits from five
present or former plant employ-ees
citing incidents of faulty
wekhng and electrical wiring,
construction sabotage, and drug
and alcohol use at the Callaway
site.
Micbele Varncchio, an investi-gator
for the accountability pro- -
t
ject, said the petition should have
reached the NRC Monday. It had
not reached the commission by- Mond-ay
afternoon, however,
according to NRC spokesman Jan
Strasma. Union Electric officials
learned of the petition Friday
The NRC completed a report in
September addressing 24 pre-vious
allegations of the Govern-ment
Accountability Project In-vestigation
of one of the charges
has not been completed, but the
NRC found the rest of the charges
to be without merit, said Mike
Cleary, the nuclear information
officer for the utility at Callaway
Varncchio said the NRC misun-derstood
and sidestepped the alle-gations
in its September report
The recent allegations appear
to be similar to the earlier
charges, Cleary said. ' Of these,
there were some based in fact"
he said. " The bulk of them ap-pear
to be things that Union Elec-tric
has reported previously to
the NRC. We cooperate with anv
legitimate NRC investigation.
And we will continue to do so, re-gardless
of the source of the alle-gations."
Court rules propositions need
additional signatures for ballot
KANSAS CITY. Mo ( UPH - De-cisions
reached by the Missouri
Court of Appeals Monday will keep a
proposal off the November ballot
that would ban nuclear power in Mis-souri
and a proposition that would
regulate large electric rate increas-es
A three- judg- e appeals panel
upheld two lower court decisions af-ter
hearing arguments whether to
place Proposition A and Proposition
B before voters Nov. 6
Proposition A, sponsored by the St.
Louis- base- d Yes To Stop Callaway
Committee, would prohibit nuclear
plants to operate in Missouri.
The appeals- cou- rt ruling affirms a
ruling by Cole County Circuit Judge
James McHenry, who on Sept. 10
said the anti- Callaw- ay initiative
lacked the needed signatures to qual-ify.
Secretary of State James Kirk- patn- ek
had earlier disqualified the
petition.
Proposition B was drafted by the
St Louis- base- d Electric Ratepayers'
Protection Project as a change in
state law on electric rate regulation.
It would require phasing in over a
period of years extraordinarily large
rate increases needed to pay con-struction
costs of new power plants.
The appeals decision upholds an
oral ruling by Cole County Circuit
Judge Byron Kinder, who Sept 14
said Proposition B, in part, was a
constitutional amendment and there-fore
the initiative petition needed
more voter signatures to be placed
on the ballot
Local supporters of both proposi-tion
A and B said they were not sur-prised
by the decisions
" It's not a terribly amazing
thing." said Bob James, 9th District
coordinator for the Yes to Stop Calla-way
Committee, a state group favor-ing
Proposition A.
Mark Haim. Columbia organizer
of the rate- shoc- k proposition or
Proposition B, said he was disap-pointed
by the decision but remained
optimistic that the state Supreme
Court will overturn the ruling.
Haim said in recent years no state
propositions have been kept off the
ballot.
Bill Miller, associate professor of
nuclear engineering at the Universi-ty
and a spokesman for the No on B
Committee, has refused to take sides
on the legal aspects of the proposal
while continuing to campaign
against the issue u. ... uitcai
realm.
Supporters of Proposition B claim
it is needed to protect consumers
from major electricity rate increas-es
resulting from the construction of
the Callaway and Wolf Creek nucle-ar
plants
However, utility companies said it
would place impossible restrictions
on their rates and would force Union
Electric to dismantle its $ 2 85 billion
Callaway nuclear plant near Re-form.
Mo
The Electric Ratepayers Protec-tion
Project earlier this y ear gath-ered
signatures of registered voters
in a statewide petition drive to pat
Proposition B on the ballot Union
Electric filed suit contending the
proposition was actually an amend-ment
to the Missouri Constitution
and therefore required more signa-tures
because of a state law requir-ing
initiative petitions on amend-ments
to carry a greater number of
signatures than petitions on state
laws
Kinder ruled, in part, the measure
was a constitutional amendment be-cause
it permitted one- chamb- er veto
of any finding by the Missouri Public
Service Commission that adequate
means exist to handle radioactive
nuclear power plant wastes
City OKs
campus
meters
By Warren Strobel
and Dean Lsmpman
Missounan slaM writers
The Columbia City Council Mon-day
night considered most of a
downtown parking plan that has
been researched for more than a
year by representatives of the citv,
its Special Business Distnct and the
University.
In addition, the council looked at
creating a city Industrial Devel-opment
Bonding Authority to over-see
the issuance of low- intere- st, tax- fre- e
bonds for companies wanting to
build in Columbia
One of five parking ordinances
considered would place fnKKour
meters on several campus streets
The bill, introduced Monday night,
also would place 10 24- min- ute meters
on Conley Avenue.
The 24- min- ute meters were re-quested
by Conley Avenue business-es
and will provide enforced short- ter- m
parking, Director of Public
Works Ray Beck said Existing 30- min- ute
parking on Conlev is not en-forced.
Beck said
Officials hope the 1d8 five- ho- ur
meters, slated for sections of Stew-art
Road, Conley Avenue, Maryland
Avenue, Fifth Street and Elm Street,
will discourage all- da- v parking on
UMC streets. Beck said
The council approved an ordi-nance
calling for new two- ho- ur and
10- ho- ur meters The new meters will
encourage part- tim- e employees to
use long- ter- m meters, freeing up
city lots for full- tim- e employees, the
report states
Second Ward Councilman Don
Mosby asked if more meters means
more meter attendants " The new
project is only going to be successful
if we work to enforce it." he said
Beck said more attendants might
have to be hired
Director of University Parking Op-erations
Jim Joy said he is pleased
with the overall plan " It will actual-ly
give students a better chance of
finding parking downtown," he said
In separate action, the council pro-hibited
parking on Broadway be-tween
Providence Road and Fourth
Street Mark Stevenson of Apart-ment
Management Services, 320 E
Broadway, arrived after the decision
and bemoaned it. " The city assumes
responsibility for the parking . I
haven't seen where we're getting
any more parking. It's just being re-duced
"
Ihe city Industrial Development
Bonding Authority, which also was
considered Monday, will be discuss-ed
at a joint conference of county
and city officials scheduled Oct 11.
Currently, industries turn to the
Boone County Industrial Devel-opment
Authority for financial help
Assistant City Manager Bob Black
said he wants a separate city author-ity
because the county authority's
philosophy deters companies from
applying. Companies want to enter
the city, he said, but won't without fi-nancial
assistance They can get the
help in other cities, he added.
The City Council has twice reject-ed
an industrial development author-ity
City Manager Dick Gray said of-fering
loans is critical to Columbia's
ability to compete with other cities
in attracting new businesses
Mosby expressed the opinion of
three other council members. " New
jobs can be created," he said.
" Sometimes they are lost by the
short- sightedne- ss of some people.
The time ( for a city bonding authori-ty)
has come."
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oTA? Z HISTORICAL JOCIETY 1012 LOIRY USC
A S J COLUMBIA. MO. & 52H
76th Year No. 16 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, October 2. 1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents
Donovan indicted; leaves Cabinet post
NEW YORK ( UPI) - Labor Secretary
Raymond Donovan was indicted Monday on
criminal fraud and larceny charges and im-mediately
took a leae of absence from his
Cabinet post He called the indictment a
" mindless inquisition" that is politically mo-tivated.
" To assure that this matter does not be-come
a part of the current election cam-paign.
I have asked the president today to
accept my request for a leave of absence
without pay, effective immediately, and he
has granted my request," Donovan said at a
hastily called news conference in Washing-ton.
" I am outraged and disgusted by the ac-tions
and the obviously partisan timing ,"
Donovan said " My concerns are that my
family has to endure this mindless inquisi-tion
and that this not reflect negatively on
the president"
At a campaign stop in Biloxi, Miss , White
House spokesman Larry Speakes said Presi-dent
Reagan had ' no specific reaction" to
the indictment " because the matter is in the
courts." When asked if Reagan retained full
confidence in his labor secretary. Speakes
replied " On the baas of what he knows,
yes"
Management of the department will now
be in the hands of I. abor Undersecretary
FordB Ford
Last week, Donovan waived immunity and
testified for nearly five hours before a Broax
grand jurv, calling its investigation a " witch
hunt"
Donovan, apparently the onlv active Cab- m- et
member ever to be indicted on criminal
charges, also said that he expects to resume
his duties when " this injustice" has been set-tled.
A Bronx grand jury returned the criminal
indictments against Donovan, the Schiavone
Construction Co in Secaucus. N J , and sev-en
current or former executives of the com-pany
Sources were unable to furnish details on
the indictment but said they stemmed from
Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola's in-vestigation
into Schiav one's relationship
with JoPel, a Broax- base- d excavation com-pany
owned by state Sen Joseph Gahber, D- Bro- ax.
and reputed mobster William Massel-- h
Merola could not be reached for comment
on the indictments.
Theodore Geiser. a lawy er for Schiavone
said he had not seen the indictment but that
he had been been informed the company and
its executives were charged with one count
of grand larceny . 125 counts of maintaining
false business records and 11 counts of filing
false business records
Geiser said Donovan and the seven other
people would be arraigned this morning in
the Bronx
JoPel was a minority business enterprise
that did work for Schiavone on the Transit
Authontv " s 63rd Street subwav extension
Merola's investigators and the grand jurv
were probing charges that S8 million alleged-ly
paid to JoPel by Schiavone in 1979 and
1980 was based on false statements and bo-gus
billings aimed at inflating the value of
the work performed by JoPel
At the time, Donovan was a Schiavone e- ecu- tive
Donovan was executive vice president of
the Schiav one Construction Co before being
chosen bv Reagan as labor secretary Ques-tions
about his dealings with that firm has
plagued him throughout his tenure, especial-ly
allegations of close business and social
connections with underworld figures
The controversy over Donovan began
when allegations surfaced of a possible link
to a kickback scheme involving Schiavone
and Newark. N J . businessman Irvirg Kan- to- r,
who had told a court that he dealt in
laundering pavoffs from contractors to poli-ticians
A second allegation mvolv ed a ghost em-ploy
ee" named Joseph Murray a dnvtr for
a Teamsters official, who was on the Sthia- von- e
payroll from November l'' 7T to June
1978, although he never reporh d to , ork
A Jan 10. 1981. Justice Department memo
said the firm relented to the demand for the
pavment " to retain labor peace "
On Jan 27. 1981. the FBI told Donovan's
Senate confirmation hearing that an exhaus-tive
investigation had failed to corroborate
any of the allegations against Donovan
Donovan was confirmed bv the Senate
Feb 3.1981 bv an 80- 1- 7 v ote
y- lirrS- c rfc-- f & 4Vatfls Cattle at the University's research farm south of Co- -
-- OlIUS Ul O. lCtfllCfi lumbia paid no heed to a flock of starlings that set- -
Alan Moyer
tied on a nearby fence The birds and cattle were
seemingly enjoying the area's warmer temperatures
Supreme Court opens term; accepts gay- righ- ts case
WASHINGTON fUPI) The Su-preme
Court opened its new term
Monday by accepting a homosexual- ngbt- s
case, denying an administra-tion
plea to block a school busing
plan and rejecting Rhode Island's
appeal of a court ruling that over-turned
the attempted murder con-viction
of Dutch financier Claus von
Bulow.
On the first day of its 1384- 8- 5 term,
the justices took acbon in about 1,000
cases, but agreed to add only 30 of
them to their docket
The justices for the first tune
took up an issue involving homosex-uals,
agreeing to review a ruling
that bars Oklahoma schools from fir-ing
teachers for advocating or en-couraging
homosexual conduct A
Missouri decisions Page 8A
lower court ruled Oklahoma's law
allowing such dismissals was an un-constitutional
denial of First Amend-ment
free- speec- h rights.
In the von Bulow case, the court
had no comment as it turned down
Rhode Island's appeal from a state
supreme court ruling overturning
the Danish- bor- n financier's convic-tions
for twice trying to murder his
socialite wife. Sunny, who has been
in a coma since January 1981.
Von Bulow was sentenced to 30
years in state prison but remains
free on bail and now may be tried a
second time bythe state.
The court also handed the Reagan
administration a defeat by refusing.
without explanation, to rev lew a rul-ing
that could require up to $ 500 mil-lion
a decade to be spent for volun-tary
busing to desegregate St I. oui. s
schools.
Administration officials urged the
justices to take up the appeals of St
Ixniis and the state of Missouri that
they should not be saddled with such
heavy costs to implement the pro-gram,
which involves busing of sig-nificant
numbers of black and white
students across district lines.
The challenge to Oklahoma's law- wa- s
brought by the National Gay
Task Force, which says its mem-bership
includes teachers in the Ok-lahoma
public school system
The group lost the first round in
federal district court, but the 10th
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck
down the section of the law punish-ing
teachers for " advocating en-couraging
or promoting public or
private homosexual acuv ity "
In other action Monday, the court
--- Agreed to decide whether a
state may require that a photograph
appear on a driver's license without
infringing on a person's religious be-liefs
Nebraska officials are appealing a
federal court ruling allowing a wom-an
to avoid being photographed for a
driving license because it interferes
with her religious beliefs
js. stand a key state court rul-ing
that allows victims of the drug
DES, which can lead to cancer in
children of women who take it dur-ing
pregnancy, to recover damages
from more than one drug manufac-turer
Agreed to review a ruling that
overturned Washington state's
obscenity law on grounds it did not
specify which books, magazines and
other matenals are obscene
Refused to review a ruling
upholding extensive, new govern-ment
rules that give consumers
more protecbon for alleged abuses
in the funeral industry
Said it will decide in an Illinois
case whether a union can prevent its
members from quitting during a
strike or when a strike is about to be
called
v Rebuffed a plea from 32 states
to restrict the power of federal
courts to review state court rulings
in capital punishment cases
Project asks NRC to suspend
initial reaction at Callaway
By Carolyn McMaster
Missourtan staff writer
Despite allegations of shoddy
workmanship, Union Electric Co.
plans to start nuclear operations
on schedule at its Callaway Nu-clear
Power Plant
" The plant is very much on
schedule," said RA. McAleenan,
nuclear information officer for
Union Electric in SL Louis. The
sustained nuclear reaction at the
plant will probably begin today.
The Government Accountabili-ty
Project, however, has filed a
petition with the Nuclear Regula-tory
Commission requesting sus-pension
of Callaway's license for
low- pow- er operation una! the
commission investigates the
group's allegations about the
plant The Washington Deb-ased
organization contends it
has sworn affidavits from five
present or former plant employ-ees
citing incidents of faulty
wekhng and electrical wiring,
construction sabotage, and drug
and alcohol use at the Callaway
site.
Micbele Varncchio, an investi-gator
for the accountability pro- -
t
ject, said the petition should have
reached the NRC Monday. It had
not reached the commission by- Mond-ay
afternoon, however,
according to NRC spokesman Jan
Strasma. Union Electric officials
learned of the petition Friday
The NRC completed a report in
September addressing 24 pre-vious
allegations of the Govern-ment
Accountability Project In-vestigation
of one of the charges
has not been completed, but the
NRC found the rest of the charges
to be without merit, said Mike
Cleary, the nuclear information
officer for the utility at Callaway
Varncchio said the NRC misun-derstood
and sidestepped the alle-gations
in its September report
The recent allegations appear
to be similar to the earlier
charges, Cleary said. ' Of these,
there were some based in fact"
he said. " The bulk of them ap-pear
to be things that Union Elec-tric
has reported previously to
the NRC. We cooperate with anv
legitimate NRC investigation.
And we will continue to do so, re-gardless
of the source of the alle-gations."
Court rules propositions need
additional signatures for ballot
KANSAS CITY. Mo ( UPH - De-cisions
reached by the Missouri
Court of Appeals Monday will keep a
proposal off the November ballot
that would ban nuclear power in Mis-souri
and a proposition that would
regulate large electric rate increas-es
A three- judg- e appeals panel
upheld two lower court decisions af-ter
hearing arguments whether to
place Proposition A and Proposition
B before voters Nov. 6
Proposition A, sponsored by the St.
Louis- base- d Yes To Stop Callaway
Committee, would prohibit nuclear
plants to operate in Missouri.
The appeals- cou- rt ruling affirms a
ruling by Cole County Circuit Judge
James McHenry, who on Sept. 10
said the anti- Callaw- ay initiative
lacked the needed signatures to qual-ify.
Secretary of State James Kirk- patn- ek
had earlier disqualified the
petition.
Proposition B was drafted by the
St Louis- base- d Electric Ratepayers'
Protection Project as a change in
state law on electric rate regulation.
It would require phasing in over a
period of years extraordinarily large
rate increases needed to pay con-struction
costs of new power plants.
The appeals decision upholds an
oral ruling by Cole County Circuit
Judge Byron Kinder, who Sept 14
said Proposition B, in part, was a
constitutional amendment and there-fore
the initiative petition needed
more voter signatures to be placed
on the ballot
Local supporters of both proposi-tion
A and B said they were not sur-prised
by the decisions
" It's not a terribly amazing
thing." said Bob James, 9th District
coordinator for the Yes to Stop Calla-way
Committee, a state group favor-ing
Proposition A.
Mark Haim. Columbia organizer
of the rate- shoc- k proposition or
Proposition B, said he was disap-pointed
by the decision but remained
optimistic that the state Supreme
Court will overturn the ruling.
Haim said in recent years no state
propositions have been kept off the
ballot.
Bill Miller, associate professor of
nuclear engineering at the Universi-ty
and a spokesman for the No on B
Committee, has refused to take sides
on the legal aspects of the proposal
while continuing to campaign
against the issue u. ... uitcai
realm.
Supporters of Proposition B claim
it is needed to protect consumers
from major electricity rate increas-es
resulting from the construction of
the Callaway and Wolf Creek nucle-ar
plants
However, utility companies said it
would place impossible restrictions
on their rates and would force Union
Electric to dismantle its $ 2 85 billion
Callaway nuclear plant near Re-form.
Mo
The Electric Ratepayers Protec-tion
Project earlier this y ear gath-ered
signatures of registered voters
in a statewide petition drive to pat
Proposition B on the ballot Union
Electric filed suit contending the
proposition was actually an amend-ment
to the Missouri Constitution
and therefore required more signa-tures
because of a state law requir-ing
initiative petitions on amend-ments
to carry a greater number of
signatures than petitions on state
laws
Kinder ruled, in part, the measure
was a constitutional amendment be-cause
it permitted one- chamb- er veto
of any finding by the Missouri Public
Service Commission that adequate
means exist to handle radioactive
nuclear power plant wastes
City OKs
campus
meters
By Warren Strobel
and Dean Lsmpman
Missounan slaM writers
The Columbia City Council Mon-day
night considered most of a
downtown parking plan that has
been researched for more than a
year by representatives of the citv,
its Special Business Distnct and the
University.
In addition, the council looked at
creating a city Industrial Devel-opment
Bonding Authority to over-see
the issuance of low- intere- st, tax- fre- e
bonds for companies wanting to
build in Columbia
One of five parking ordinances
considered would place fnKKour
meters on several campus streets
The bill, introduced Monday night,
also would place 10 24- min- ute meters
on Conley Avenue.
The 24- min- ute meters were re-quested
by Conley Avenue business-es
and will provide enforced short- ter- m
parking, Director of Public
Works Ray Beck said Existing 30- min- ute
parking on Conlev is not en-forced.
Beck said
Officials hope the 1d8 five- ho- ur
meters, slated for sections of Stew-art
Road, Conley Avenue, Maryland
Avenue, Fifth Street and Elm Street,
will discourage all- da- v parking on
UMC streets. Beck said
The council approved an ordi-nance
calling for new two- ho- ur and
10- ho- ur meters The new meters will
encourage part- tim- e employees to
use long- ter- m meters, freeing up
city lots for full- tim- e employees, the
report states
Second Ward Councilman Don
Mosby asked if more meters means
more meter attendants " The new
project is only going to be successful
if we work to enforce it." he said
Beck said more attendants might
have to be hired
Director of University Parking Op-erations
Jim Joy said he is pleased
with the overall plan " It will actual-ly
give students a better chance of
finding parking downtown," he said
In separate action, the council pro-hibited
parking on Broadway be-tween
Providence Road and Fourth
Street Mark Stevenson of Apart-ment
Management Services, 320 E
Broadway, arrived after the decision
and bemoaned it. " The city assumes
responsibility for the parking . I
haven't seen where we're getting
any more parking. It's just being re-duced
"
Ihe city Industrial Development
Bonding Authority, which also was
considered Monday, will be discuss-ed
at a joint conference of county
and city officials scheduled Oct 11.
Currently, industries turn to the
Boone County Industrial Devel-opment
Authority for financial help
Assistant City Manager Bob Black
said he wants a separate city author-ity
because the county authority's
philosophy deters companies from
applying. Companies want to enter
the city, he said, but won't without fi-nancial
assistance They can get the
help in other cities, he added.
The City Council has twice reject-ed
an industrial development author-ity
City Manager Dick Gray said of-fering
loans is critical to Columbia's
ability to compete with other cities
in attracting new businesses
Mosby expressed the opinion of
three other council members. " New
jobs can be created," he said.
" Sometimes they are lost by the
short- sightedne- ss of some people.
The time ( for a city bonding authori-ty)
has come."
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